Framing Errors: Reality and Fiction in Audio Drama

Year 2015, Issue: 41, 5 - 15, 01.04.2015

Leslie Mcmurtry

Abstract

Radio serials and in particular radio soap operas have inspired devotion in their listeners to the point where their fans throw themselves wholeheartedly into a universe of outward unreality and inward reality. This leads to framing errors, by which I mean an extension of blurring of reality. This paper looks at several examples from world radio soaps, including those from the US, Britain, Turkey, France, and Poland, before assessing other examples in audio drama outside the realm of the soap opera serial

Keywords

Radio, drama, literature, audience, culture, serial, hoax

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